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The Amazon entry's a bit weird. Essentially it's an anthology of loads of short work (or extracts) I like, from the 1830s onwards. Benjamin Disraeli, Israel Zangwill, Dorothy Parker, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Rafael Sabatini. What you might call an eclectic collection. Something for everyone! They asked me to cut it from around 1000 pages to about 600 but it's still pretty interesting, I think. John Coulthart did the design inside.
Well, I can recommend the authors! I think it's a nice collection. The larger one was even better, but it would certainly have fallen apart as you opened it!
Well, I can recommend the authors! I think it's a nice collection. The larger one was even better, but it would certainly have fallen apart as you opened it!
I'm sure this has been asked before, Mike, but when the Miscellany is published, is there any chance you could post the titles of the stories/extracts that ended up getting omitted? Something like a 'Director's Cut', as it were. Then those who want to search out what would have been in the book could have the chance to to do so?
_"For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless. _For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him. _And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished. _He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."
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